Take the Perl Survey

Skud writes "The Perl Survey is attempting to take a snapshot of the Perl world as it currently stands. Whether you're a web developer, sysadmin, or using Perl for scientific research or finance or just tracking your DVD collection, we'd love to hear about it.

We're trying to answer questions like:

Where do Perl programmers come from?

What sort of fields do they work in?

What languages — computer and spoken — do Perl programmers use?

How many use Perl as their primary language?

What proportion of Perl users participate in the Perl community through mailing lists, user groups, and conferences?

The survey's open til the end of September. After it closes, we'll be releasing the results in various forms, including a full data set for you to download and play with."

YAPC::Europe 2007 attendees dinner getting full

While that's great (really!), that also means you have to be fast to have yourseat committed for you! We are limited to 320 seats for the dinner so we haveto apply our "first come first serve" principle for the dinner. Seats will becommitted in order of incoming payments, so be sure the grab your seat and buyyour ticket in case you haven't done so! For those who have paid already (orhave sponsor tickets), consider your seat reserved for you.

The 2007 White Camel Awards

Allison is at the center of the Perl community. She's been president of The Perl Foundation, a leader and manager of various parts of the Perl 6 and Parrot efforts, as well a Perl author and editor. Her latest contribution to Perl is version 2 of the Artistic License, under which most open source Perl code, and Perl itself, is licensesd "under the terms of Perl itself".

Tim O'Reilly

You may think of Tim as the guy who published Programming perl and Learning Perl, but he also kick-started the current form of the Perl community by giving it a place to come to together once a year. O'Reilly & Associates started The Perl Conference in 1997. Perl Mongers, the organization that helped start Perl users groups all over the world, started at that first Perl Conference. O'Reilly Media has been incredibly gracious and helpful to the Perl community.

Norbert E. Grüner

Norbert help start the German Perl Workshop in 1999 and now is involved in several of the Perl conferences and workshops that take place in Europe. He's the chair of the YAPC::Europe committee.

Mastering Perl is at OSCON!

I finally got my hands on the hard-copy of Mastering Perl, which is on sell at the Powell's table. Get it at OSCON and you don't have to pay sales tax or shipping!

I'll be at the Powell's table with other authors at 1:30ish on Wednesday, July 25 if anyone want to stop by for me to sign any of my books. I will probably also be at Powell's Technical Books Wednesday evening for the Beautiful Code discussion, so you can catch up to me there.

fordmason writes "I have put together a PDF quick reference card for the Perl debugger. It is not yet finished, but there are floods near where I live in Gloucestershire (UK) and we may lose our power for several days, so I thought I would release it now.

There are now ten Perl-related quick reference cards on refcards.com with more in the pipeline."

Perl 6 Design Minutes for 11 July 2007

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 11 July 2007, after two weeks of hiatus due to YAPC::NA and American Independence Day. Damian, Allison, and Jesse attended; Patrick sent in a report beforehand. These are the minutes:

YAPC::Europe Update

As we’ve been a bit lax with sending out updates to you, here’s a quick
update on recent happenings regarding YAPC::Europe 2007

The schedule is still not done (this is *hard* work), but in the
meantime you check out this page:
http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/talks
In fact, we are busy working on it at this moment and expect the
schedule to be ready in a few days maximum.

Damian Conway in Portugal - Intermediate OO Perl

Damian Conway, one of the world's most renowned members of the Perl community (as a programmer, CPAN author, writer and speaker), is coming, once again, to Portugal, this August, 20th and 21st, to lecture his Intermediate Object Oriented Perl course, in an event organized and sponsored by log.

July MadMongers: Quick and Dirty Perl

kmccombs writes "July's MadMongers meeting features Plain Black developer Doug Bell, who will be presenting Quick and Dirty Perl: What You Can Do With One Line. From data munging, to patch insertion, to application glue, to log parsing, Perl is so powerful that it can do in one line what most languages would have trouble doing in 100 lines.

Whether you're a Perl novice, a Perl expert, a system administrator or a programmer in another language, this talk will have something for everyone.

Windy City Perl Mongers to visit Lincoln Park Zoo'

Lincoln Park Zoo will give a free, docent-guided, behind-the-scenes tour of the camel exhibit exclusively for Perl Mongers on Saturday August 11 at 11:00 am. That's when all the stars align for the docents, animals, and zookeepers.

If you're interested in coming, please RSVP with me (brian d foy, brian.d.foy@gmail.com). Children may come, although it will be a grown-up oriented event. Priority for the 20 slots goes to those who donated to the Chicago.pm's camel fund. After that we can open it up to spouses and friends. Even if people can't go into the camel enclosure, there's still plenty to do at the zoo during the half hour tour. There is no admission fee to the zoo for anyone.

If you're not in Chicago, check if your local zoo has a similar program. Most zoos are willing to do this sort of thing for groups that give them a lot of money. :)

A trio of Perl 6 microgrants

Flavio Glock will receive a travel microgrant to help him attend YAPC::EU and evangelize kp6 and the Perl 6 in Perl 6 effort.

Steve Pritchard will receive a microgrant to complete the RPM packaging of Parrot and Pugs for Fedora and to submit those packages for inclusion in the official Fedora distribution. Steve will be blogging his progress at http://blog.stevecoinc.com/

Juerd Waalboer is the maintainer of feather.perl6.nl, the primary host for Pugs development. Juerd will receive a microgrant to purchase upgraded hardware for feather.